Masaaki Imai

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Interview, Source : British Industry
Published : February 2003

MARTIN ASHCROFT learns some lean lessons from Masaaki Imai, the master of kaizen

Over 50 years ago, the Japanese went to America to discover the secrets of the mass production system for automobile assembly devised by Henry Ford. Kiichiro Toyoda discovered that the productivity of the American worker was nine times better than...

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